Ruffles



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F. PANSE. MACHINE FOR MAKING RUPFLBS.

No.36'4,369. 5! PatentedJune7,1887.

INVENTDR N. PETERS. Pholmlilhotnphr. Walhinglon, D. (Iv

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MACHINE FOR MAKING RUFPLES.

No. 364,369. n Patented June 7 1887.

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P. PANSE. MACHINE FOR MAKING BUFFLES.

No. 364,369; PatentedJune 71 1887.

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No. 364,369; Patented June 7, 1887.

WITN E5 5 E5 R N. PETERS. Ph toiilhograplmr, Waihinginn. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRIEDRICH PANSE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MACHINE FOR MAKING RUFFLES.

$PECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,369, dated June 7, 1887.

Serial No. 230,593. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH PANSE, of the city of New York, county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Fluting and Reeling Ruffles, of which the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a machine for ru ffling strips or lengths of woven fabric. The fabric is made to enter between a pair of flutingrollers, and is then subjected to a peculiar reefing action by which the folds or ruffles are compressed. This reeling action takes place above a heated bed, so that the reefs will retain their shape. Finally, the fabric is passed between pressure-rollers that compress it at its center only and force a thread into its surface. 7

The invention consists in the various elements of improvement, hereinafter more fully pointed out. v

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a verti cal longitudinal section on line a: .70, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation looking at the right side of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4. aside elevation looking at the left side of Fig. 1.

The letter a represents the frame of the machine mounted in suitable manner and provided, near one end, with two fluted rollers, b c, that mesh into one another. The lower fluted roller, 0, is journaled within frame a, and is positively driven from a crank, d, which imparts motion to the entire machine. The upper fluted roller, 1), is driven by roller 0, and is hung in a sliding and adjustable bearing, 0, above roller 0, so that the distance between the rollers may be changed.

f is a feed-table in front of the rollers b 0, while back of these rollers there is a perforated bed-plate, 9, above a gas, hot -air, or steam chamber, h, to which a heating agent may be supplied in suitable manner. 1 prefer to apply gas as the heating agent, and to ignite it within chamber h, when the heat will pass through the perforated bed-plate g, and through a pair of perforated endless aprons, i t, placed side by side and running over two shafts, j 7.1. The'aprons cover the perforated bed-plate, 9, Fig. ].,-and serve to draw the with the aprons.

fabric over such plate, as will be hereinafter more fully described. As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the aprons i have a straight or horizontal upper working-surface.

The front apron-shaft, j, receives its motion through gear-wheell from roller 0, Fig. 4,while the rear shaft, k, is hung in sliding bearings and receives no direct motion.

Above aprons i, and near the front thereof, and in front of chamber 71, there is fitted in sliding bearings a rcefing-roller, m, having radial teeth that come in contact, or nearly so,

This roller m receives motion through gear-whee1s a 0, Fig. 3, from roller 0. These gear-wheels-are hung in an adjustable frame, 1), Fig. 3, so that the wheels may be raised or lowered to adapt the machine for the reception of differently-sized reefingrollers m. The proportion of gearing is such that the roofing-roller m is driven at a different speed than aprons i. In this way the fabric, merging, properly fluted, from between the rollers b c, is crowded together by the aprons and the reefing-rollers, and thus the flutes are properly packed or pressed against each other. Toprevent the flutes when on the aprons from springing upward, a number of plates or a plate, q, is stretched'lengthwise over the aprons, and may, if desired, be passed at its ends beneath two eccentricshafts, c, Fig. 2, by means of which the tension of the plate and its distance above the aprons may be adjusted. s t are upper and lower hollow and heated pressing-rollers, having a central rib, a, Fig. 1, extending between apronsi t. It is for the reception of this rib that I use two aprons in.- stead of one. The upper compressingroller, s, is hung in sliding bearings 8', while the lower roller, t, is also adjustably hung, and receives motion through train of gearing r r r'from gear-wheel Z, Fig. w is a thread running from spool 1 through a tank, .2, containing an adhesive between the rollers s 25, so as to be pressed into the fabric by rib u of such rollers.

The machine being in proper adjustment, is operated by turning crank (Z. The fabric placed on feed-table f is introduced between rollers b c to be fluted. It then passes over heated plate 9 upon aprons v, on which the flutes are packed by roller m while the fabric is being fed along. Finally, the central part of the fabric is compressed by rib a of rollers st, while at the same time the thread w is pressed into the face of the fabric. The fabric thus properly ruffled leaves the machine at it rear end.

What I claim is- 1. The combination, in a fluting-machine, of a pair of tinting-rollers with a feedapron having a straight or horizontal upper working surface, and with a pair of shafts around which the apron is hung, and with a driving-crank intergeared with one of such shafts, and with a reefing-rollerhaving radial teeth, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, in a lluting-lnachine, of a pair of fluting-rollcrs with a perforated bed-platc and a perforated feed apron, and with a pair of shafts around which the apron is hung, and one of which is positively driven, and with a reefing-roller, and with a heatingchaniber placed back of the reeling-roller, sub stantially as specified.

3. The combination offluting-rollers b c with apron i, shafts 9' 7c, one of which is positively driven, reeling-roller m, perforated bed-plate g, chamberh, and with the compressing-rollers s t, the upper one having rib u, substim tiall y as specified.

4. The combination of tinting-rollers b c, perforated bed plate 9, heating chamber h, divided apron i, shafts j it, one of which is positively driven, reefing'rollcr m, plate q, rollers s t, spool 3 ,and tank 2, substantially as specified.

FRlEDRlGH PANSE.

Vitnesses:

F. v. BRIESEN, HENRY E. ROEDER, 

